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Souris, Marc

Dr. Marc Souris is senior research director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), in the UMR 190 "Unité des virus émergents". He holds a PhD in Computer Science and a Habilitation to Lead Research. Mathematician and computer scientist by training, his work at IRD mainly concerns information sciences applied to geography and epidemiology. Since 1983, he has been developing research, innovation, software, and teaching in geomatics: geographic information systems, spatial analysis, statistics, modelling. He is the main author of the SavGIS GIS software package (www.savgis.org). The thematic applications that it has carried out during its scientific activities have focused mainly on the issue of risk, whether "natural" or "health": epidemiology, health and environment, risk analysis and prevention for natural disasters. He has also worked in the fields of urban planning, land use planning, geology and archaeology. He has taught the foundations of geomatics and spatial analysis for epidemiology and geography of health in Master II and PhD programs at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense and at the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand).